The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27

supreme court in what is known as the Rive.
gate conspiracy case, growing out of an at
tempt OF workmen to prevent the employ
| ment of other workmen and to deter them
from working by denouncing them as
scabs" and threatening to make them
publicly odious as such. The opinion is by
Judge Henry II. Powers, and is in effect
| that conspiracy among workmen TO pre-
vent others from working or from being
| hired is crime at common law and pun
ishable under the statutes of Vermont.
SOME peculiar circumstances attended the
funeral of the late Hon. j. NJ Dyer at West
Salisbury few days ago. Mr.. Dyer was
| man of massive size. No casket could he
found large enough and one was made II
was six feet six inches in length two and
one-half feet wide and twenty-one inches
deep. No hearse was large enough to hold
it, and six men were required to take IL
through the front window of the house to
an express wagon, which was barely large
| enough. The casket was with great diff
iculty taken in and out of the church
! The grave was four feet wide and seven feet
| long. Mr.. Dyer stood more than six feet
tall and weighed three hundred pounds.
| He was the largest man in the county, il
not in northern Vermont. He leaves three
sons who stand six feet and are well pro-
| portioned,
THE state board Of railroad commission
ers held a hearing at Burlington last week
Wednesday on the petition from the business
men of Burlington requesting that the st.
Johnsbury & Lake Champain and Burling-
ton a. Lamoille railroads be compelled to
| bill freight over each others lines. G., S.
Mellen, president of the St. Johnsbury &
Lake Champlan Railroad Company, said
that If the Burlington & LamoiIle railroad
would make an agreement to bill to and
from all the stations on the ST. Johnsbury
| a. Lake Champain road including Portland
and Boston, that road would be willing to
| make such arrangements. General Mana
ger G. L. Linsey of the Burlington & La
noble said that he would agree to Joint
| tariff to all points in the Boston 81 Lowell
territory, if that road would put Burlington
on an equal basis with Maquam Bay. The
commission adjourned the hearing until
May 49,
Mr.. j. p RIM, the famous Boston archi-
tect who has made the plan of the Benning-
ton battle monument that has been selected
by the association gives the following de-
tails: The monument will be thirty-seven
feet square at the base and three hundred
feet high. The outer surface tapers with
vertical curve, ending in a parabolic curve
beginning about seventy feet from the top.
On the inside the stairs will rest against
three sides and the landings will occupy the
fourth side. There will be fourteen flights
or y runs " of stairs to reach the principal
outlook, which will be two hundred feet
above the base. At one hundred eighty
feet above the base is another outlook of
considerable dimensions. These two out
looks will comprise twenty large openings,
from which hundreds can look at the same
time. Above the higher of these outlooks
there will best runs of stairs. The stairs
consist OF eighteen steps each. From two
hundred feet upward there will be several
smaller outlooks There will be five floors,
built of iron, brick and North river
stone" The internal walls will not be
cased with wood, but the stone will be visi-
BILE all the way up. 1t is not yet decided
whether there will be an elevator. 1t is
probable that the work will be pushed dur
ing the summer, and that on the 10th of
August the cornerstone will be laid, with
proper ceremonies Mr.. Rim saws by that
time the monument could be one hundred
feet high if work should be begun by the
1st of May
In General.
THE slave-trade hourishes openly on the
Madagascar coast.
THERE is great distress in the flooded
districts of Montreal.
A MAJORITY of Illinois cities were carried
for license last week
Ex-CoNGREssMAN A. j. WEAVER died re-
Gently in Falls City, Neb.
THE total amount of trade-dollars re-
deemed to date is S5,2430OO.
/, A SUDDEN rise in the St. Lawrence has
Hooded the lower part of Montreal.
THE teeth and decayed bones of a masto-
don were exhumed on farm near Trio,
Ohio.
. experienced over the whole of the Island of
Jersey.
EX-SECRETARY MANNING writes to friends
in Albany that his health is greatly i'm
proved.
: THE Brush electric light works in Gin
cinnati were burned Sunday. The loss was
$4,000.
GENERAL KILPATRICK's war-horse died at
Deckertown, n. j. He was thirty-three
years old.
MAJOR JOHN E. BLAINE, brother of Hon
James G.. Blaine, died at Hot Springs Ark,
last week.
AN Arthur memorial service was held
t in the assembly chamber at Albany last
, Wednesday.
The London Times calls Lord Salisbury's
/, offer to America in the fishery matter uuix-
otto generosity.
L THE peach-trees of Maryland and Della
ware are in such bloom that a plenteous
7 crop is promised.
A CYCLONE at Suffolk, Va, destroyed
several houses and killed Mrs. John Wright
and James Luke
GERMAN papers claim that the French
commissary arrested by the German police
last week is spy.
No military display will be made in Canada
, on Queen Victorias jubilee, in Difference to
l home-rule sentiment
THE Canadian Pacific is carrying sugar to
: st. Paul from the Pacific coast cheaper than
the Northern Pacific.
ANNA C.. LESLIE, Philadelphia belle, ac-
,, cidentally shot herself through the brain
= while cleaning pistol.
: THE Afghan rebellion is spreading. Three
5 thousand of the Ameer's troops have been
routed by the Ghilzais.
+ MILES S. EARLE has been appointed by
: the governor of California as chief Justice of
: the state supreme court.
l DURING last year no fewer than five thou
3 sand regular soldiers deserted from the
J. ranks of the British army.
!. Mrs. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has returned
3 from Florida. The sign GO To Let" is hang
ing upon the Brooklyn house.
j. G. BIGGAR, member of parliament, has
sued the London Times for libel on account
: of the so-called Parnell letter.
Mrs. LOGAN says she is not writing a
novel and has not received one dollar of
: the salary due her deceased husband.
: THE President has appointed Edward I.
{ Bingham of Ohio chief-justice of the SUI
: preme court of the District of Columbia.
1 A RESOLUTION favoring annexation to the
United States was introduced in the Nova
: Scotia legislature, but was signally defeated.
t A TRAIN-wRECK in Pennsylvania, Thurs
$ day, caused the death of a fireman and
! brakeman, and an engineer was severely
4 hurt